This section includes the complete walk-through and puzzle solutions for Edanna. Since this section contains the complete Edanna walk-through and its puzzle solutions, it's filled with spoilers. If you're looking for hints, head to the Edanna Puzzle Hints section of this game guide. You'll find hints and nudges there--you'll find solutions and spoilers here! Proceed with caution through this section! If you're stuck in a particular area, search for the appropriate header and locate the walk-through and puzzle solutions within.

Myst III: Exile is nonlinear--much of the exploration and puzzles can be completed in any order. The order presented in this walk-through isn't the only path or necessarily the best path. However, following this walk-through ensures completion of all the age's puzzles.

Furthermore, if you get stuck, you can always return to J'nanin and attempt another age (or if you need clues or information). If you follow this walk-through, though, you won't need to return to J'nanin until you have completed the Edanna age!

Exploring the Age

You start Edanna inside what appears to be a hollow tree or root system. You'll soon discover that traveling through Edanna requires more vertical than horizontal movement. You begin beside an unusual flower. Stand behind the floor, which acts as a magnifying lens, and spot the J'nanin linking book--you can use this linking book to return to J'nanin in case you get stuck inside Edanna or wish to attempt a different age.

This magnifying flower sets the stage for the remainder of Edanna. You must use the indigenous plants and creatures as assistance in the age's puzzles to complete the age and gain the symbol.

Peer through the flower for a close-up of the bird feeding its young.

Turn around from the magnifying flower and notice the spiraling, staircaselike tree. Use the tree to ascend higher into the Edanna age. Explore the immediate area to discover a birdlike creature arriving back to its nest. Use the nearby flower (similar to the one you used a moment ago) as magnification to gain a close-up of the bird. You'll spot the bird feeding its young.

Descending into the Forest

Proceed down the available path, turning left toward a large fluid-filled sac. You can touch the sac and watch the fluid shake inside. As you may have noticed, in Myst III: Exile, virtually everything you can interact with plays some importance later in the game. Remember this fluid-filled sac! As you approach and interact with the sac, the bird feeding its young completes the meal and flies off to find another meal.

Explore the surrounding area and discover another spiral staircaselike tree. It looks similar to the first one except for one major difference--this staircaselike tree appears dried up and wilted. Try as you might, you won't be able to use the tree to reach another level of Edanna. You must figure out how to "cure" the tree to proceed further.

Follow the slope and locate another type of flower--it isn't quite like the magnifying flower you discovered earlier. In fact, it has different properties. Approach the flower and examine it closely. You gain control of the flower; move your view around to point the flower at different objects. It doesn't appear to do anything--apparently there's something else you need to do.

Note how sunlight gives this flower its power!

Turn around from the flower and approach the fanlike vines. Touch the vines, and they'll automatically spread; moving the vines allows sunlight through toward the flower (it also reveals the J'nanin linking book). Return to the flower and peer through it once again. You'll notice that the sunlight moving through the flower has caused a focused beam to form. The beam focuses the sun's rays and its heat toward a particular object.

Simple trial and error may complete the puzzle; however, think about what you are attempting to accomplish. You are trying to repair the dried, wilted staircaselike tree. If you recall, on your way to this point you encountered a fluid-filled sac. Perhaps you can break the fluid-filled sac and douse the tree to nourish it.

With sunlight beaming through, point the flower at the fluid-filled sac. Keep the beam on the sac until it bursts. The fluid feeds the tree, the tree returns to its living state. You can now use the tree! Approach the staircaselike tree. Use the tree to descend lower into Edanna.

 

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